All things upon earth are pell mell, in most admirable disorder. Thou must, as from some higher place, look down, saith Plato, upon the things of this world; as flocks, armies; the labours of husbandmen, marriages, divorces; generations, deaths; the tumults of courts, and places of judicature; public festivals, mournings; fairs, and markets.---Marcus Aurelius. 26. Deaths. John II. (Pope), A. D. 535. Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Archbp. (Simon) Islip, 1366. Madame le Prince de Beau-Diana de Poitiers, Duchess of mont, 1711, Rouen. Valentinois, 1566. John Anthony Guldenstaedt, Michael Neander, 1595. died, 1745, Riga. Richd. Twiss, 1747, Rotterdam. Asia, Europe, what are they Obits of the Latin Church. bot, d. c. 645. St. Paschasius Radbert, Abbot Honour is acquired by action. Love is the business of the idle.---Theophrastus. Dim as the borrow'd beams of Moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.---Religio Laici. Acts. THE PLYNTERIA, an Athenian festival kept upon the twenty-fifth of Thargelion, when the statue of Minerva was deprived of its ornaments, and afterwards purified. It was therefore considered an unfortunate day; the men being excluded by ropes from the temples. The return of Alcibiades from his exile happened during this anniversary, B. C. 407. Lorenzo de Medici is rescued by the Florentine populace from the hands of assassins, whilst celebrating mass in the Cathedral (Sunday), 1478. His brother Julian was slain. The Archbishop who became the tool of Pope Sixtus for accomplishing this foul and impious conspiracy was afterwards suspended in his pontifical robes from the window of his own sanctuary. Neither the great nor the minor laws of our nature can ever, from their very constitution, be infringed with impunity. John White, with one hundred and fifty men in three vessels, sails from Portsmouth to settle a colony in Virginia, by the orders of Sir Walter Raleigh. On the 22nd of June, 1587, they anchored at Santa Cruz, beyond Dominica, where “some of our women and men, by eating a small fruit like green apples, were fearfully troubled with a sudden burning in their mouths, and swelling of their tongues so big, that some of them could not speak." Upon the 18th of August Eleanor, daughter to the Governor of Virginia, and wife of Ananias Dare, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoak, and because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was named Virginia. The first court is held in the colony of Connecticut, New England, at Hartford, now one of the capitals of this state, 1636. Dr. Pitcairne delivers his inaugural oration as Professor of Physic, in the University of Leyden, 1692. Henry Howard, Earl of Bindon, Deputy of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, holds his Court of Chivalry in the painted chamber at Westminster, according to ancient custom, 1707. Lord Somers was one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprophaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly: a man, who dispensed blessings by his life, and planned them for posterity. He was at once the model of Addison, and the touchstone of Swift.---Horace Walpole. Day. My love is fair, my love is gay, As fresh as be the flowers in May, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse !---Enone. Births. Deaths. V. Cal. 27. Charles Blount, 1654, Upper Ethelred I. (of England), killed, Holloway. 871. Winburn. Edward Gibbon, 1737, O.S. Conrad of Montferrat, Putney. assassinated, Tyre. 1192. Philip the Bold, (Duke of Bur gundy,) 1404. d. Hall in Hainault. My lot might have been that Commodore (John) Barth, of a slave, a savage, or a pea- Obits of the Latin Church. St. Anthimus, Bishop, and many others, Martyrs at Nicomedia, 303. 1702. d. Dunkirk. James Bernard, 1718. d. Ley den. John Pontas, 1728. d. Paris. Twickenham. John James Ankerstrom, executed, 1792. Sir William Jones, 1794. Calcutta. James Bruce, 1794. d. Kinnaird, in Stirlingshire. A professed sceptic can be guided by nothing but his present passions (if he has any) and interests; and to be mas St. Anastasius, Pope, 401. St. Zita, Virgin, d. 1272. child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all.-Gray. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to Heaven.---Sir William Jones. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Of things invisible to mortal sight.---Paradise Lost. Acts. THE LATIAN Festivals, when the forty-seven Latin deputies annually assembled at Alba, upon the Mons Sacer, and offered sacrifices to Jupiter Latialis; a political association first established by Tarquin the Proud. The inhabitants of Milan return to their capital, which had been razed by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and rebuilt by a noble contribution of the Lombard cities, 1167. The battle before the castle of Dunbar, and defeat of John Baliol, 1296: "Felon fool!" exclaimed Edward, in a tone of contempt and pity, “but since he will not obey our summons, we must go and find him out." This punitory mission was entrusted to and executed by Warenne, Earl of Surrey.-See 2nd July. The States-General seize the town of Flushing and hang the Spanish commander, 1573. Reading surrenders to the Earl of Essex, 1643. King Charles I. leaves Oxford in disguise (over the Magdalen Bridge), one in the morning, towards the Scottish quarters, then at Southwell, 1646. Milton, the blind schoolmaster, as Waller contemptuously called him, executes this day, 1667, the contract disposing of the copy-right of his "Paradise Lost" to Samuel Simmons, a printer and stationer in London, for the present sum of five pounds, and five pounds more when thirteen hundred copies of the first impression should be sold in retail, and the like sum at the end of the second and third editions, to be accounted as aforesaid; and that [each of] the said three first impressions shall not exceed fifteen hundred books, or volumes of the said manuscript. The second payment was made to the author, 26th April, 1669, and on the 21st of December, 1680, his widow Elizabeth Milton disposed of her entire interest in the poem for eight pounds; so that the sublimest poetical building in the world produced for its architect the sum of Eighteen Pounds! The price of the small quarto, in 1667, was 3s. The Earl of Anglesey presents his celebrated remonstrance to Charles II., 1682. The marriage of Frederick Prince of Wales (grandfather of his Majesty), with Augusta, younger daughter of Frederick, Duke of Saxe Gotha, 1736. Chatham spoke his maiden oration on this event. Is the application which heals the rotten parts of the constitution less valuable than that which cuts them away? Cicero to Atticus. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, The way to dusky death. Out, out, brief candle! It is a tale Day. IV. Marcus Salvius Otho, A. D. 30. Menenius Agrippa, B. C. 492. Cal. Charles Cotton, 1630, Ovingden. 28. John David Michaelis, 1717, Rome. Thomas Chaucer, A. D. 1434. Ewelm. Henry Percy, 4th Earl of North- John Houghton, (Prior of the Chartreuse,) executed, 1535. When he walks, he moves Obits of the Latin Church. Ravenna, d. c. 62. Sts. Pollio and his Companions, Martyrs in Pannonia, 304. St. Cronan, Abbot of Roscrea tholomew. James Bonnell, 1699. Dublin. field, 1732. Shirburn, Oxon. beheaded, Copenhagen. nated, Rastadt. Baron Denon, 1825. d. Paris. I much lament the little taste the gentry of this nation have, at present, for the just and noble representations in some of our tragedies.---Steele. |
